[pulseaudio-discuss] [RFC] Passthrough support

[Arun Raghavan]

On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 11:04 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Arun Raghavan at 18/02/11 09:41 did gyre and gimble:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 22:02 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> >> Hey folks,
> >> I've put up a draft proposed API changes to get passthrough support to
> >> the point where things Just Work™ for at least the common cases, based
> >> on previous discussion on-/off-list:
> >>
> >> http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PassthroughSupport
> >>
> >> Please review/comment. Once we have some consensus, I'll send in patches
> >> to actually get this done.
> > 
> > I've updated this page with the changes discussed so far (and translated
> > them into the actual API changes that we need). Please take a look and
> > let me know if this looks acceptable.
> 
> I've maybe missed the discussion, but is it worth having both:
>  pa_stream_new_extended
> and
>  pa_stream_new_with_proplist_extended
> 
> Doesn't the former just call the latter with a NULL proplist anyway?
> 
> While I appreciate the symmetry with the existing API, I'd say avoid the
> cruft and just call it pa_stream_new_extended() which implies both the
> format and the proplist. WDYT?

Good point - I agree with this. Also, fixed option c in the wiki. :)

Cheers,
Arun